YouTube rankings

 28 views that's how many views my videos

used to get when I did not understand

YouTube keyword research now that I do

I've got hundred of videos ranking

number one in the YouTube search results

when people search for Pick Three AI

tutorial my video shows up number one

when they search for AI video generator

I show up number one when they search

for create faceless YouTube videos I

show up number one and number two this

results in YouTube search traffic

allowing people to find my video when

they search for these keywords this

helps me get more views subscribers as

well as general erate more revenue and

that is not just for my personal channel

on one of my faceless YouTube automation

channels I was able to get over 135

million views on the channel make over

half a million dollars in at revenue and

if I go to content and then reach you'll

see that over 61% is YouTube search over

19% is external which is Google search

so my keyword research strategies work

for any type of Channel if you're at a

stage where none of your videos do well

nor ranking search results this video is

made for you as up bre break down the

exact freest step strategy I use myself

to go from my videos getting no views at

all to my videos getting for example

24,000 views 600,000 views or even 3

million views by optimizing for keywords

and YouTube SEO so in this video I will

show you how to do keyword research this

is the best way to go about finding

keywords that you can actually rank for

there's so much fluff on YouTube from

people who've barely scratched the

service at this moment I've uploaded

over 5,000 videos generating me about

100,000 views every single day across a

few channels so trust me I've made all

the mistakes you can make and I have

finally found the best way to do keyword

research now this will make you go from

choosing the wrong keywords and wasting

your time and effort to being able to

find the right keywords so that your

videos can Rank and get views for months

if not years to come then I will show

you how to qualify a keyword how do you

differentiate the difference between a

good keyword and a bad keyword because

is finding a keyword in the first place

can be hard however that is only the

first step if you choose a bad keyword

this can mean that your video won't rank

or maybe it ranks but it doesn't get

views because there's no searge volume

because of that it is very important

that you qualify the keyword meaning you

do research to figure out if it would be

worth your time and effort to make a

video on this keyword and then the final

step of this puzzle how to optimize your

video with SEO to rank number one in

search how do you optimize your title

and descript destion to increase your

chances of ranking number one in the

YouTube search results this can make the

difference between ranking number one

and not ranking at all now there's only

two important steps for this however

doing one of them wrong already ruins

all of your effort now of course I will

show you both important steps in this

video to make sure that you can rank

number one and what's even more

important for you to know is that in

this video I will not sell you any

course or coaching I'm here to provide

you with everything I know about YouTube

keyr research and in return Le please

leave a like on this video And subscribe

that's all I'm going to ask for now with

that being said please get rid of all

your distractions and let's dive into

the world of keyword research on YouTube

now before I show you the sexy stuff

that's coming up what exactly is keyword

research now simply said doing keyword

research the process of finding what

people search for on YouTube and then

figuring out if we can potentially rank

our video for that specific search

phrase or keyword meaning if someone

searches for the keyword we found can we

get our video to show up high in these

search results AI video generator is one

of these keyword SL search phrases so

when people search for this my video

then shows up number two that is pretty

high they can click on that video and

then watch it okay so you now get what

it is however you still might wonder

Yuri why is this so important why do you

have to do keyword research if you want

to rank your video well simply set once

again if you make videos at random

chances are you won't get what you're

looking for which is good views and we

can prove that by taking a look at this

video video that I uploaded on August

24th 2020 so that is over 3 years ago

and this video only ended up getting 137

views why because I did not do any

keyword research I just made a video

that I thought would be interesting for

people on YouTube and I got proven wrong

because this video did not perform well

it's not ranking and in the last 48

hours it is getting zero views now let's

compare that to actually doing qer

research this is one of the videos that

I also uploaded February 21st 202 2

about 600 days ago and as you can see

there's still a lot of traffic coming

every single day from YouTube search 80%

is coming from YouTube search 5% from

external which is going to be Google

search and that makes up for the

majority of traffic on this video so

this video with keyword research had

114,000 views got me close to 600

subscribers as well as made me close to

$900 which is one video but the best

part is this video is ranking in the

search results and because of that it is

still getting views and making money

every single day so basically set

without keyword research you must rely

on YouTube showing your videos to people

on the homepage and recommended section

however if this doesn't happen and most

likely it will not especially if you're

just getting started you'll be stuck at

zero views however with the keyword

research you can properly analyze the

best opportunities to get views on your

video because before making your video

you already know that there's interest

because people search for your video

topic now now that you know that all you

need to do is show up in these search

results for people to discover your

video now once again taking a look at my

actual YouTube Studio this video right

there uploaded over 3 years ago only has

five views literally five views it made

me 1 cent on the first day since then it

didn't make me any money this video is

not ranking it's not getting any views

it's completely dead why because they

not do proper keyword research then

comparing that to this video right here

this video is well alive live as you can

see this video in total 88,000 views so

far made

$529 but the best part is every single

hour this is still getting views so in

the last 48 hours close to 1,000 views

last 60 Minutes 22 views most of it

comes from YouTube search so this video

is ranking really well as you can see in

the initial stages it wasn't getting

that many views but after a month or so

it started to pick up pick up pick up

and right now it's doing very very well

making about $3 every single day now to

finish that off I want you to answer

this question so when searching for

something online whether that be Google

YouTube whatever do you ever go to the

fifth page no right you click on one of

the first results that shows up so in

order to end up number one you need to

do keyword research I'll use a freest

step process for my keyword research

step one will lead into step two and

into step three now remember this will

be a very detailed tutorial so chances

are you might have questions about

certain things but the answers will

probably be given in the following steps

okay so step number one is finding

keywords people actually search for

because if you rank for a keyword that

nobody searches for you'll still get

zero views and that's not what we want

so one of the ways to find keywords with

search volume is by using the search bar

on YouTube when typing in something in

this bar YouTube will show you the most

relevant keywords to what you typed in

and this is based on YouTube data so if

we type in AI we will find a list of

keywords which is called search

predictions now all of these predictions

are based on what typed into this bar

initially so all of these keywords now

show up because people have actually

searched for it before meaning we know

for a fact that people search for this

which is exactly what we want so how do

I know for a fact that people search for

this simply said YouTube wants to show

the viewer the most relevant keywords

the keyword they are most likely looking

for and because of that they will show

search predictions based on most search

volume to least search volume so in the

search bar you can find all keywords

people actually search for on the entire

platform of YouTube so what we can now

do is use the search bar to find all

keywords people search for in your Niche

let's say my Niche is AI if I now type

in AI I will see a whole list of

keywords that I can potentially make a

video about now you can extract all

these keywords manually by doing a few

different combinations in the search bar

the first one is the alphabet method

after typing in a keyword you can type

in every letter of the alphabet to make

more detailed keyword show up for

example example if I type in how to a

you get this entire list of keywords if

I then type in how to B the list will

change and I get all of these how to see

once again the list will change if I now

add a word in between that for example

how to delete a this list shows up how

to delete B etc etc this will once again

be a whole new list of keywords for

every letter you put in you can then

change delete to a different word do the

entire alphabet again and once again

you'll get thousands of keywords so that

way you can already get endless keywords

to show up the second method is using

the underscore after typing in at least

two words you can put the underscore in

between them to see keyword people

search for using the initial two words

that you used for example let's say I

type in how to Instagram then I put the

underscore between them and you get to

see all of these keywords right here

there's a few more ways to combine

search strategies to find endless

amounts of keywords and that's exactly

what I did back in 2020 however it is a

bit of a pain and it takes quite a long

time to find all of these keywords

especially if you want to search for

very detailed long teal keywords that

have high search volume and low

competition since this year I found that

doing research is much easier as well as

quicker by using vid iq's keywords tool

all of the keywords that show up on vid

IQ are extracted from the search bar in

the first place which means we have

access to the exact same keywords

however with with vid IQ we can find

them much quicker as well as easier

especially for beginners reason for that

is because you don't need to play around

with all these combinations in the

search bar in the first place so what I

like to do on vid IQ is start off by

typing in the main keyword in my

industry let's say I make videos about

AI technology I will type in AI this is

the initial keyword that we search for I

call this the main keyword then I click

on matching terms what this does is that

it will show me more keyword words that

have my initial keyword that I search

for in it so Ai and then we get AI cover

AI news AI tools AI voice changer and

the list goes on and on so just with

that one click on matching terms we're

now able to find a dozen keywords that

include AI then you've also got related

keywords which is slightly different

however it also allows you to find tons

of keywords instead of showing you more

keywords that has your keyword in it

related keywords shows you similar

things to what your keyword is so for

example searching for AI will also show

you stuff that includes AI but it will

also show you keywords that don't for

example machine learning deep learning

Future tools mat wolf so just to get it

clear matching terms will show you

keywords that include the keyword that

you search for related keywords will

show you similar things to the keyword

that you search for not necessarily

including the keyword itself but that's

not the good part what I like the most

is that I can now click on any of these

keywords and do the same thing so let's

say I click on AI voice changer AI voice

changer will now become my keyword that

I search for if I then click on matching

terms again I will once again get a list

of dozen of keywords that include AI

voice changer so I went from searching

for AI then clicking twice to finding

all of these keywords right here and

that is why vid IQ is so powerful

because you're not going to be able to

do it that quickly with just the search

bar alone you'll see that if I just

search for AI I will also get to see AI

voice changer but then I need to type in

AI voice changer and then I'll just get

this list of keywords however on vid IQ

with AI voice changer I will get much

more and in case you'd like to try viq

Yourself by the way I will leave my

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you to try viq premium for just $1 for

30 days now this video is not sponsored

by viq however I asked them if they can

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subscribers and they did so thanks to

them you can get this exclusive $1 for

30 days deal with the link in the

description down below so right here

I've got a keyword that says realtime AI

voice changer now for the research part

I don't use the search volume score or

the competition or anything like that in

my opinion this is not that accurate I

will definitely ignore it and the reason

I say that is because everyone has

access to these scores so if you're

going to go based on these scores alone

everyone can do the exact same as you

you don't have the skills yourself to

understand why this might be a good

keyword and why this might not be a good

keyword so because of of that I don't

really take a look at this course too

much because number one they're not

extremely reliable and number two

everyone has access to the same score so

if we're going to decide to make a video

just based on that score and everyone

will do the same we're all going to make

the same video and we've got no

competitive advantage over everybody

else that's using these scores to do

their keyword research whereas if we do

the research ourselves we can understand

the keyword better and crush the

competition so instead what I do is I

copy the keyword simply select it click

copy one keyword then go to YouTube and

simply search for the keyword that you

found which in my case is realtime AI

voice changer and then search for it but

before I show you step number two which

is how you can find a difference between

good keywords and bad keywords which

will decide whether your video is going

to get views or no views at all let's

first do some more keyword research and

fill out this list of keywords that

later in this video I can an analyze so

that you can see exactly how I operate

and how I do this in real time going

back to vid IQ keywords I'm now going to

search for the keyword that we just

found which is real time AI voice

changer if I now click on matching terms

I'll be able to find even more in-depth

keywords for example music AI voice

changer real time so this is even more

specific and often times the more

specific aka the longer the keyword yes

there will be a bit less search volume

however there will also be much less

competition so for example if around

4,000 people are searching for this yet

no one has made this video right there

we can very easily get about 4,000 views

per month now once again don't trust

these course too much but it's just an

indication so music AI voice changer

real time is another keyword I'm going

to copy and we're going to add that to

the list let's try and fight one more

Topic in the AI Niche before switching

to a different Niche once again I'll

start out by searching for AI click on

matching terms and I'll just scroll

through the results so right at the bat

what I noticed is that photoshop AI is

one of the results now Photoshop is a

pretty big platform which means that on

a lot of these keywords there might be

some good traffic so then I will click

on Photoshop AI scroll back up click on

matching terms again to find more

detailed longtail keywords about

Photoshop AI because just Photoshop AI

is most likely going to be way too

competitive especially if we have a

small channel so we're now matching

terms for Photoshop AI let me scroll

down and see what I find so right there

I notice how to use Photoshop AI that

right there is a very good keyword as it

will allow us to create a tutorial video

which of do well for ranking so this one

has caught my attention now what I could

do is right away save this one itself

let's put it in the list however chances

are that this is still too competitive

so what I'm going to do as well is click

on this one again so now we have how to

use Photoshop AI then go to matching

terms to find an even better keyword so

once again we've got a whole list

however the search volume does need to

be decent which is why this one how to

use Photoshop AI Genera a fill seems

very interesting to me this is a very

specific keyword judging by vid iq's

search volume and competition score this

is going to be great but once again you

do not want to pay too much attention to

that it is just a nature of this keyword

that seems pretty good to me so this one

I'm going to copy put it in my list

again then if I keep looking this one

right there how to use the new

generative AI Photoshop is also pretty

interesting so you can definitely save

more than one keyword for the search

phace that you've done because this is

exactly why vid IQ speeds up the entire

process if you only save one keyword

then you start doing the research arch

for your entire list let's say that how

to use Photoshop AI was too competitive

I cannot directly research the other two

whereas now because I've also saved

these ones I can directly analyze them

too speeding up the keyword research

process like crazy let's try some

platform specific keyword research for

example you know that canva is a great

tool a lot of people use it and you make

videos about canva you can start off by

typing in canva then click on matching

terms and then right at the bat you'll

see all of these keywords right here now

of course you can already keep clicking

on a few of these keywords right here

canva magic Studio seems interesting as

I think that's a new feature so let me

click on that one then scroll back up go

to matching terms and here we go how to

use canva magic Studio how to use magic

studio in canva canva Magic Studio AI so

once again we've got a whole list of

keywords now instead of clicking on

matching terms you can also click on

related keywords if I do that for the ca

keyword and I now start scrolling you'll

see the massive topics right here

however I can already tell you these are

going to be way too competitive but if I

continue to scroll through this list for

example how to use canva app seems like

an interesting one to me so what I'm

going to do is I'm going to save this

keyword and put it in my list and the

best part is knowing the strategy you

can do this for every platform for

example let's say you make videos about

Shopify you type in Shopify let's go to

matching terms then right away all of

these are the very big ones so I'm not

going to use these ones however Shopify

SEO seems pretty interesting so I'm

going to click on Shopify SEO then once

again this is still a pretty big term so

I'm going to go to matching terms to

make it even more detailed and then from

here on as you can see I'm able to find

uh Shopify SEO optimization now I myself

I would have never thought about that in

the first place however with that IQ by

just clicking twice I'm now able to find

it so I'm going to select it copy it and

once again put it in my list let's show

you one more example before we get into

step number two let's say you make

videos about marketing let's search for

marketing let's then go to matching

terms the second term right there

digital marketing let's click on that

then once again we'll go to matching

terms now what I noticed right at the

bat is that the keywords that show up in

the first place have a lot of search

volume why because these are not very

specific keywords this is just an entire

industry as a keyword so this is

probably not what I'm looking for so

instead what I will do is scroll down

and just see which keywords I notice for

example how to start a digital marketing

agency that is a specific detailed

keyword for example how to get clients

for digital Market marketing agency so I

will take these two keywords and put

them in my list step number two is

researching whether there's actual

search volume as well as if you've got

the opportunity to rank your video the

way I do that is by opening up the

ranking videos in a brand new tab so

right click open a new tab right click

open a new tab and then right here open

a new tab so I've just opened all the

high ranking videos for the keyword that

we found with it IQ which was realtime

AI voice changer so always search for

the key word that you find in vid IQ and

then open the ranking videos then in

order to see how many views the ranking

videos are getting we need vid iq's

feature called historical data now this

is the only tool that allows us to get

data from other people's videos and with

this tool we can check the performance

over time but more importantly the views

per hour this video is getting as of

right now which will save us from making

a big mistake and that's the mistake

most people make that keeps them from

getting a lot of views because look at

this let's say I found this this keyword

how to change fun on Tik Tok one of the

ranking videos has 224,000 views I could

now think I found a good keyword with

vid IQ because this channel is ranking

for my keyword has 224,000 views I can

now very easily think I would love to

get 200,000 views myself so let's make

the video however I didn't check if as

of right now people still search for

this because if I now take a look at the

views per hour on this video you can see

that vid IQ stopped tracking it in May

2022 and back then it was not even

getting one view per hour which means

that if it's not updated as of right now

it's not getting any views whatsoever

and that's the mistake this channel made

right here they made the exact same

topic but they didn't check if people

were still searching for this because of

this this video only has 395 views not

even enough to get the data to show up

in the first place on this video so with

the historical data tool we can

differentiate the difference between a

good and a bad keyword if the high

ranking videos all get good views per

hour that's a great sign that people

still searching for this if all of the

ranking videos used to get a lot of

views per hour and now get zero views or

the tracking is not up to date that is a

very bad sign now to get the historical

data feature to show up you do need a

vdq account all you need to do for that

is add the vdq browser extension which

you can easily do through the Google

Chrome Store now the extension works

with a free version of viq however you

do need a paid account to get access to

the historical data for that I'll leave

my personal Link in the description down

below which allows you to try VI IQ

premium for just $1 for 30 days now when

you sign up it will ask you to connect

your YouTube channel now don't worry

about this I know it might seem weird at

first but vdq is verified by YouTube

I've used this for four years and I

never had any concern or issues so don't

worry it is totally safe with that being

said let's analyze our keyword so this

is the number one ranking video for the

keyword realtime AI voice changer if we

take a look at the views overall we can

see that it's still going up quite

steadily which is a good sign initially

it got about 2,000 views in the first

day but this is from a channel called

Andy AI which already has 880,000 plus

subscribers so it is safe to say that

the initial bump of views came from his

subscribers which is always something to

look out for if you're analyzing a graph

from a very big Channel and the video

has a lot of views it is most likely

that the initial views came from

subscribers what you want to look for

when you want to rank a keyword to get

search traffic is whether this video is

continuing to get views every single day

which from this line itself we can say

that that is indeed the case then next

up which is more important let's take a

look at views per hour once again

initially gets about 100 views per hour

which is from his subscribers don't pay

attention to that instead let's take a

look at a few weeks after uploading as

well as right now so you can see that a

few weeks after upload uploading about a

month later this video is still getting

about 9 10 8 views per hour which is

very good which brings up the question

what is a good amount of views per hours

to look for now the answer will depend

on your channel size let's say you're a

small channel that just started getting

five views per hour or let's say 30

videos because you upload daily within

the first month you'll be getting about

3,600 views every single day out of that

you might gain around 20 subscribers per

day and very easily you'll be able to

reach 1,000 subscribers within your

first two months on YouTube which means

that five views per hour on a video is a

great result however if you're a big

Channel with 100,000 subscribers getting

five views per hour won't do the job for

you and because of that I'd like to take

a look at it this way I analyze the top

fre ranking videos for my keyword I add

up the amount of views per hour it is

getting and divide it by free if the

number that comes out of that is

something I'd be happy with to get on my

video I make the video if the number

that comes out of it is something I

won't be happy with I leave the keyword

so the views per hour that you should

look for is kind of a gray area simply

do the research and if the amount of

views per hour is some of you desire you

know that is worth it chances are this a

search traffic because this video is

ranking number one for that keyword and

that way we kind of need verified that

there are still a lot of people

searching for this keyword at this

moment this video is getting about 7even

or six views per hour which will equal

out about 144 views per day which is not

bad at all on a monthly basis that is

4,000 views if you can get 25 videos

like this you're already at 100,000

views per month it all starts to add up

over time now I happen to know ndi

personally so I sent him a text asking

if he can confirm that this video isn't

he getting traffic from search and as

you can see he came through send me the

screenshot and as you can see 75% of the

traffic isn't coming from YouTube search

on that video so we were correct then

let's take a look at the second ranking

video for that keyword so so once again

we're going to go to historical and we

can once again see the graph is going up

very steadily which is good to see if we

take a look at views per hour it's even

better this video is getting about 100

views every single hour as of right now

having analyzed that I can definitely

tell you there's a lot of search traffic

for this type of keyword and then we've

got video number three right here

however this is a tricky one the reason

for that is because this title does not

match at all with our search phrase our

search phrase is Real Time AI voice

changer right there this only contains

AI voice changer which means that this

video might be doing well on a different

keyword than we found so you always want

to make sure that the videos you analyze

include the keyword that we found in the

first place however the first two videos

do indeed get quite some good traffic

which means we didn't confirm that

people are searching for this once

you've confirmed that the videos are

still getting views what you can do

additionally as well is open up the

channel in a new tab and then with the

VQ extension you can can click right

here on these free dots click view

trending videos trending videos from vid

IQ allows you to see which videos are

currently getting the most views per

hour on a channel which as you can see

apart from these two shorts the video

that we found with that keyword is

indeed their best performing video which

is also a very good sign so if the high

ranking videos are getting good views

per hour and is one of their trending

videos this will be a good keyword which

brings us to step number three now that

we found a good keyword that hasn't de

got search draft

we need to figure out if we can rank our

video for that we're going to research

these four points number one are they

using the exact keyword in their title

as I told you before YouTube wants to

show the most relevant video to the

audience so that it's most likely they

will click and watch a video that way

YouTube makes more money so knowing that

YouTube will serve the most relevant

video to an audience what they will do

is show the video most relevant to a

keyword which means that if you include

your keyword in the title preferably at

the start of your title you'll rank

higher than videos that don't include

the exact keyword and I can show you

that right now so let's say we search

for realtime AI voice changer as you

will see the number one ranking video is

indeed real time AI voice changer which

is a direct match with our keyword the

second video from Andy has best AI voice

changer real time so Andy has switched

up these keywords making him not outrank

this person right there even though his

video is much longer and accumulates

more watch time now the reason and this

video was initially ranking number one

when I searched for this was because I

was signed into my account and I've

previously watched videos from Andy so

if you want to do proper research always

do this in a private window so that all

of the results are 100% clean so knowing

all of that what we're looking for when

researching is videos that are ranking

very high that do not include the entire

keyword now for this keyword that

unfortunately is not the case as the

number one ranking video does indeed

include the exact keyword the way you

can research that that very easily is

taking the keyword copying it clicking

on the free dots in Chrome click find

and then search for this and then as you

can see it will show you how many people

have this it will always have one result

because it's what we search for so every

number above one means one of the videos

includes the exact phrase so as you can

see there's only two results which means

only one video has the exact keyword in

their title and because of that this

video is ranking number one now first of

all let me back that up so notice how

this video is now number one because

it's the most relevant let's now search

for this best AI voice changer real time

I've not searched for this yet but I can

guarantee you that Andy's video will now

show up number one simply because it

matches my keyword so let's search for

this and there we go as you can see and

the AI now shows up number one why

simply because our keyword that we

search for is the exact title that he

has confirming that you want to use the

exact keyword in your title so knowing

that your video can wank number one when

you use the exact keyword in your title

ultimately what we want to find is

videos that rank very high in search

that do not use the exact keyword as

their title which leaves the opportunity

for us to do that exact thing so once

you found a keyword that has ranking

videos who do not use the exact keyword

that is a great sign you can outrank

them Point number two is taking a look

at the channel size if you search for a

keyword and all of the ranking videos

are from Channels with millions of

subscribers you're probably not going to

outrank them as a small Channel which is

the case for the keyword shopy tutorial

as you can see the number one ranking

video has 400,000 subscribers the second

ranking video 235,000 subscribers almost

800,000 subscribers

350,000 making this a very very hard

keyword to rancom simply because the

competition has very big channels as

well as high quality content so that

would be a bad sign however if you

search for a keyword and a lot of the

ranking videos are from small channels

or channels that don't have hundreds of

thousands or millions of subscribers

subcribers that is indeed a good sign

because if they were able to rank as a

smaller Channel you can do the same

Shopify SEO optimization is a great

example for a keyword that you probably

able to rank on because there are

smaller channels ranking very high the

number one ranking video is from a

Channel with just 9.6k subscribers which

is not big at all the second ranking

video is from a channel that's even

smaller just 3.9k subscribers like we

saw earlier in this video as well the

third point is video length so YouTube

is known to rank videos based on the

total watch time that video accumulates

which means that if all of the ranking

videos are kind of short and you can

make a longer plus a better video and

that is the key point there you don't

just want to make a longer video for the

sake of it because then the quality will

drop but a longer and better video that

is once again a great sign that you're

going to outrank them because it will

accumulate more watch time people will

enjoy it more or at least that's what

YouTube will think because that's a sign

it gives and because of that you can

outrank the currently ranking videos

Point number number four that I like to

take a look at is the thumbnail let's

say that all of the ranking videos have

extremely bad thumbnails and you see an

opportunity to make a much better

thumbil that once again is a great sign

you will outrank them because your CTR

your clickthrough rate will be higher

and because of that once again YouTube

will show your video much higher than

the videos with a very low clickr rate

Leonardo AI tutorial is one of those

keywords as you can see the first two

ranking videos in my opinion don't have

the best thumbnails as you can see the

first one has text that is over lapping

a logo as well as overall just doesn't

look that great same goes for the second

one as you can see there's a lot of

stuff going on the text is kind of hard

to read as well as it doesn't look

professional now that is perfect for us

so what I did I created a brand new

thumbnail how I would create it which

look like this on the right hand side

we've got the character from Leonardo AI

we've got the Leonardo AI logo so that

people will recognize it as well as it

simply says complete tutorial 2023 very

easy to read bolt font and I use a

yellow text on a black background so

that the contrast is good the new new

version will outperform this one every

single day of the week same goes for

this one once again this one in my

opinion much much better and by the way

if you want to figure out what your

thumbnail looks like before uploading it

there's a website called thumbs up.tv

where you can upload your image right

here insert your title and then by doing

so you can see what it looks like on

YouTube you can even see it per device

as well as the traffic Source now having

our checklist with points to look at

when doing research for a keyword let's

research the keywords that I was able to

find earlier in this video starting off

with music AI voice changer real time so

let's make the search and as step number

one is opening up the first free ranking

videos to see if there's any traffic on

these kind of videos now when doing that

keep in mind that the titles have to be

somewhat related to the keyword that you

search for which for this video it isn't

need the case now this video we've been

able to see earlier is getting gray

traffic the second ranking video is the

exact same thing as you can see over 100

views per hour as well and then the

video that was ranking number for free

it's not doing that well it's about 1.5

views per hour which is a massive

difference so now knowing that there

seems to be some sort of interest

because these videos are getting crazy

views per hour so what I would do next

is first of all take the keyword go to

find and then see if there's anyone that

has our exact keyword in their title

which as you can see right there one out

of one which means no one has this exact

title which honestly couldn't be better

which also means that point number three

we don't even have to take a look at

simp because there is no direct

competition on this exact keyword so

even if there are big channels ranking

right here if we use our exact keyword

as our title we're going to outrank them

when people search for this specific

keyword which is perfect and then the

same goes for the video length as well

as if there's a good or bad thumbnail

now the video length right here could be

much better so we can easily create a

better video while also making it a

little bit longer for this one that's

going to be hard because it's 18 minutes

however like I I said because no one has

the exact keyword this will still get

the job done for us this means that

music AI voice changer real time is a

good keyword to make a video about to

get our video to rank for that keyword

simply because there seems to be zero

competition the second keyword is how to

start a digital marketing agency first

of all as always let's open up the

ranking videos in a brand new tab and

here's what we get so the first video is

indeed getting quite steady traffic this

is most likely YouTube search simply

because it goes up very steadily so that

right there is a great sign currently

getting about two views per hour which

to be honest could be a lot better

because that will only get us about 50

views per day but still that's 1500

views a month and these kind of videos

have a very high CPM which means

technically it's still might be worth it

taking a look at the second video this

one is getting even more views you can

see about 40 views per hour let's check

that right there 50 views per hour even

as of right now as well as it continues

to go up very very steadily which is

good to see and the number three is even

better if we go over here you can see

132 views per hour however what I

already noticed is that the channels

that are ranking are very big you can

see 100,000 subscribers 800,000 and then

3.7 million so the video that isn't

doing as well as the other two is from a

channel that simply doesn't get views

anyway most of the time if we take a

look at that right here Mike nardy

normally gets a few hundred views per

video so this for him is actually a

pretty good video so based on this we

might still make the video however if we

then analyze number two and three which

is from Central media as well as imangi

these are very very big channels and

chances are that this video is simply

getting pushed in the recommended simply

because this video is ranking number one

as we can see right here however this is

only getting a few views per hour and

then these other two videos that are

ranking lower are getting significantly

more traffic I'm talking 10x maybe even

50x to views per hour knowing that this

is from Big channels chances are that

the views come from recommendations

making this not a good keyword for us

why because we cannot be sure that the

traffic isn't coming from YouTube search

as well as that all of the ranking

videos are from very very big channels

which have a lot of authority they have

great content so it's going to be hard

to compete with them so how to start a

digital marketing agency is not a good

keyword to make a video about to rank

and search however we've got another

version of that how to get clients for

digital marketing agency so our first

video right here is getting about two

views per hour which once again comes

down to about 50 views per day the

second ranking video is at 1.4 views per

hour and then the third one is at 6.7 so

right at the bat it's interesting that

this one is getting 6.7 while the other

ones are significantly lower the reason

for that is because the keyword doesn't

match this is about how to get your

first smma client which is not our

keyword our keyword is how to get

clients for digital marketing agency so

this right there we cannot really

include in our research simply because

the video is about something different

so we're going to get rid of this one

this video right here is somewhat

similar it's about getting clients but

it's an ad agency which once again is

not really our keyword it is still

somewhat related so you can use it to

get an idea of whether there is any

interest at all in this kind of topic

which this video got 35,000 views which

is somewhat all right it's not bad so a

lot of people aren't interested in this

but the first one is a much better

result as you can see five ways to get

clients for your digital marketing

agency so this is indeed our keyword

that we're trying to rank for so judging

based on this video itself the traffic

right here is somewhat all right

especially if you're a small channel in

the marketing Niche but what gives me

even more hope is that if I take the

keyword right there and that I search

for this is that no one has the exact

keyword apart from this guy right there

but this video is uploaded 2 years ago

which which means it's a pretty old

video so knowing that there is some

decent traffic on this keyword and

knowing that only one person has the

exact keyword as their title we can now

look at Point number three which is a

channel size and that is why I'm very

optimistic about this keyword because if

we take a look at this channel right

there which is ranking number one Danny

via you can see that this channel only

has 1.4k subscribers and if we go to

popular you'll see that this is by far

his most popular video which honestly it

doesn't get much better than that

because if this guy that barely uploads

that normally doesn't get any views was

able to get his best performing video

with our keyword chances are we can do

the exact same so Point number three

small or big channels definitely small

channels which is a good sign for us

then point number four the video length

it's 11 minutes which is pretty

significant so that is pretty good for

him now chances are we can still make a

slightly longer video that is even

better because this topic there's a lot

to it so we can definitely make a

slightly better and longer video

which once again is a good sign for us

regarding the thumbnail it's a pretty

decent thumbnail it's not bad by any

means however I definitely see room to

improve it which once again is a great

sign for us making this keyword how to

get clients for digital marketing agency

a great keyword for a small channel in

the marketing industry and then let's do

one more keyword canva tutorial for

beginners as you know by now opened up

the ranking videos the first one is

getting 50 views per hour which is

definitely great second one is at 16

views per hour and then the third one is

also at 50 views per hour which

definitely means there's a lot of

traffic on this keyword next up let's

figure out if people have our exact

keyword in their title which as you can

see 42 results show up which means

there's an insane amount of people that

have our exact keyword in their title

which for us is a pretty bad sign then

also looking at the channel size of the

videos that are ranking you can see

almost 200,000 subscribers 400,000

almost 100,000 000 the same channel

right there 1.5 million canva itself

with 300,000 so safe to say the

competition on this keyword is insane

there is very big channels ranking for

this topic which is a very bad sign for

us then also looking at the video length

of these videos right here as well as

the thumbnails considering everything so

far this is definitely not going to be a

good keyword simply because the

competition is way too high and way too

good the traffic on this keyword wasn't

need perfect as these videos are getting

50 views per hour however we're simply

not going to beat these kind of channels

especially if you don't have one of

those big channels yourself and that is

how I research the keyword once I have

found it now that we have completed step

number one which was keyword research

step number two was checking if people

actually search for this and if you have

an opportunity to rank for this keyword

it is now time for step three which is

SEO for SEO once again we're going to be

taking a look at four different points

that we need to do correctly in order to

to rank our video number one for the

search phrase starting off with Point

number one which is having the exact

keyword in your title preferably in the

beginning of your title remember youu

will show the most relevant video to a

search phrase that someone has made

because of that you want to include the

exact keyword in your title making you

rank much higher than people that do not

use that exact keyword in their title so

one of the keywords that we found that

was actually good was Shopify SEO

optimiz ation so right now I will do the

SEO for that specific keyword so that

you can watch over my shoulder how to

implement this starting off with the

title now the title is the most

important part of all of this okay so

the title our keyword Shopify SEO

optimization what I will be doing is

simply starting off my title with that

exact keyword so I will say Shopify SEO

optimization and there we go so by doing

that my exact keyword is indeed at the

beginning of the title which couldn't be

better however we also want to make it a

clickable title we don't want to keyword

stuff it try to hack the game too much

people also need to be able to read it

and actually want to click on it and

because of that I think about adding

something like Shopify SEO optimization

tutorial for beginners now what you

could potentially do is include multiple

keywords in your title so you could go

back to VI IQ keyword section go to

Shopify SEO either go related keywords

or matching terms to see if there's

something else that people also search

for so tutorial for beginners is

something that I can include in the

title after my main keyword this will

make it a clickable title as well as I

add another keyword in there which could

help me ranking for that exact keyword

too so Shopify SEO optimization and then

I'm going to add tutorial for beginners

just like that and to be honest that is

all that I need to do for this keyword

I'm going to add brackets and then add

2023 in my opinion that just makes it

look a bit better a bit more clickable

but but you can play around with that

yourself it is not that important the

most important part right here is that

you have the exact keyword which is this

one that you found in your title

preferably at the beginning of your

title then point number two adding a few

matching terms in the description so

first of all what I always do I take my

title I copy this and I put it at the

top of my description because when

searching for a keyword on YouTube you

will see that the beginning of the

description doesn't show up right here

in the search result results on desktop

once you've done that it is time to add

a few matching keywords as well as

related keywords in your description to

tell you to what your video is about as

well as potentially show up for those

related keywords so for that I simply

hit enter twice I will go back to VI IQ

I will go to related keywords and I'll

take a look at the keywords that show up

right here as well as in the matching

terms section and then what you want to

do from here is not just keyword stuff

them what I see a lot of people do

they'll select all of these and they

simply paste it all in here however that

is against the termos service from

YouTube instead what you want to do is

make it a readable description while

still including these keywords so here's

what I'll do I'll type in in this and

then I'll include the main keyword so

I'll say in this Shopify SEO

optimization tutorial and then right at

the backat once again we have put our

keyword in the description I will show

you how to and that potentially leaves

me room to include another keyword so

I'll go back to VI IQ and I'll try and

find a keyword that somehow solves a

problem related to Shopify SEO because

then I can say in this Shopify SEO

optimization tutorial I will show you

how to XY Z I can solve a problem right

there right there I found a keyword

Shopify search engine optimization so I

can copy this one go back to YouTube how

to do paste it how to do Shopify search

engine optimization perfect included

another related keyword now once again

the goal of this is to tell YouTube what

our video is about but also potentially

show up for these keywords right here

let's go back to vid IQ we can also

click on questions which is going to

show you questions now this could be

useful for your description usually

titles or keywords itself they don't

have that much search volume because

most people don't search in a question

kind of way on YouTube however for

example this keyword right there how to

optimize Shopify store for SEO I can

take this right there then I can go back

and I can say you might be wondering how

to optimize Shopify store for SEO but

don't

worry I'll show you all there is to

Shopify

SEO so that you can launch a successful

Shopify

dropshipping business so right there

Shopify dropshipping business is another

keyword that I just included and that's

exactly what you need to do this right

there is already a pretty decent

description for us to rank for that

keyword as we've we've included a few

related as well as matching keywords

which tells YouTube what our video is

about as well as we can potentially rank

for those keywords itself plus

everything is readable and people can

understand it you have to keep in mind

we're not uploading a video for the

algorithm or to rank we're uploading a

video for the viewer to understand and

get value out of our video never forget

that part now if you want you can also

use the AI description generator from

vid IQ for example if you type in

Shopify SEO you can click on generate

and then right there is going to help

you create a description which honestly

is actually pretty accurate as you can

see right there it also includes quite a

few keywords they give you three options

just like that so you may use this as a

draft and then improve it yourself to

make this process even quicker however

don't follow this blindly always make

sure you check and research yourself

then we've got to attach the thumbnail

there we go Shopify SEO optimization

2023 very easy to understand let's

scroll down not made for kids and now

let's let's go to the tags because a lot

of people wonder if tags are actually

important and they think that you can

get millions of views by using the exact

tags that you need which honestly is not

true so all I do myself I go to a

website called rabit tags.io I take the

keyword that I want to rank for which in

this case is Shopify SEO optimization I

go to the tag generator I search for

this hit search and then as you can see

all of these tags show up I simply copy

them and then I paste them right here

and that is it I'm done now sometimes I

will check whether it says 2022 and then

I'll remove that at all or I'll change

it to 2023 but apart from that just read

through see if it makes sense which in

this case it does we've got SEO on

Shopify Shopify SEO tips Shopify SEO

tutorial the list goes on and on so

these are perfect tags now YouTube even

says it themselves tags can be useful if

content in your videos commonly

misspelled otherwise tags play a minimal

role in helping viewers find your video

so don't pay too much much attention

just do what I just did with rapid

tags.io generator and that is it to be

honest we are now done and we have

completed the SEO for our video Let's

quickly sum up what we've done point one

we've included the exact keyword in our

title preferably at the beginning of

your title then we have used a few

related keywords as well as matching

terms in our description so that YouTube

knows what our video is about as well as

we can potentially rank for those

keywords then we've added a thumbnail

that is very easy to read as well tells

the viewer exactly what they're looking

for which in this case is Shopify SEO

optimization and then finally we have

added relevant tags for our keyword

using rapid tags.io now that you know

the freestep keyword research process it

is time to do this from start till

finish meaning step one two and three

all behind each other in one take which

is why now I would like to do live

keyword research with you so what I'm

going to do I'm going to set myself the

goal of finding a keyword I can rank for

with great traffic in search for my

personal channel right here and I want

you to do this with me when I'm

researching I want you to think as well

is this a good keyword if yes why so if

not why so let's get this going so

taking a look at my channel I mainly

cover faceless YouTube channel content

as well as creating content with AI

That's a topic that lately has been

doing very well for me so I'm going to

go to vid IQ and I want to find a

keyword I can rank for that is related

to creating content with AI so first of

all my main keyword that I'm going to

search for is AI and then I'm going to

go to matching terms on vid IQ then I'm

simply going to scroll through the

results so AI tools that could be

something that I might potentially uh

look into that could have some great

topics but I also spot AI video

generator right here now already I've

got this video right there AI video

generators which is getting about 500

views per day from YouTube search as of

right now as you can see 23 PR views per

hour which to be honest is pretty decent

so I actually go here and research this

topic a little bit more and from doing

so I find these keywords free AI video

generator AI video generator free so

it's interesting the first two results

the top results are about fre AI video

generators which I have not looked into

nor have I made a video about that so

that could potentially be something that

I could make a video about also with the

fact in mind mind that this video is

already doing well on that keyword so

what I'm going to do is I'm going to

take this one free AI video generator

and I'll search for this on YouTube and

then we'll analyze the results I have a

funny feeling that this might actually

be a very very good keyword for my

Channel all right so first of all as

always let's open up the first free

ranking results I'll actually do a few

more I'll do the first four simply

because this keyword is quite

interesting I'll explain why in a bit

then first of all let's take a look at

at the views per hour on the ranking

videos so this video is ranking number

one currently getting 11 views per hour

and as you can see it's going up very

very steadily it doesn't get more linear

than it does right here ranking video

number two 12.8 views per hour if we go

to views right here you can see kind of

died down however this is from a channel

Matt wolf it's a personal Channel big

channel so the views right here could

potentially be from recommendations and

that right now it is just sech traffic

that's kind of what I think it is since

the video is still picking up traffic

quite nicely and very steadily then the

thir result is at 100 views per hour

significantly more than the other two

however this is from fing media so a

pretty big Channel as well although it

is going up quite steadily I still think

that potentially this video is getting

pushed in the YouTube algorithm on the

homepage or recommendations simply

because this channel is so big and it

has a lot of views within just one month

also if we take a look at the title very

important to always remember remember

free AI video generator that's not even

what this video is you can see this AI

tool creates videos in seconds this is

not free AI video generator which makes

this unrelevant to include in our

research process however this one right

here free AI video generator doesn't

need include our keyword phrase and if

we take a look at this almost nine views

per hour also going up quite steadily

plus this is a small Channel which is

good to see which brings us first step

number two let's take a look how many

people actually use the keyword as their

title which is uh free AI video

generator so there's 20 results which is

quite big so the first video doesn't

need have the exact keyword same goes

for the second video third video doesn't

for video has it and then from there on

a few people have it now this one right

there is also performing very very well

so I'll just open it up quickly as well

just to take a look at that let's see

how many views per hour this is still

getting so this is is at almost 100

views per hour which is massive as well

which is actually quite crazy so we can

see that this is very staty as well

might still be traffic from

recommendations as I don't think there's

400,000 people searching for this in

Just 2 months however it shows that the

topic is really sought after a lot of

people like watching a video about the

free AI video generators then

considering that quite a few people have

this exact keyword phrase as their title

it's not the best sign however if we

then take a look at the channel size the

number one ranking video has only 20,000

subscribers I have 880,000 plus

subscribers so I'm four times bigger

than that channel I am much smaller than

the channel that's ranking second I'm

also much smaller than the video ranking

third however this is not relevant as

it's not really the exact keyword I'm

much bigger than this one right here so

the fact that a small channel here anit

was able to get good views and rank

pretty high on that video shows me that

this is indeed quite a decent keyword

you can see he's getting nine views per

hour which to be honest for his channel

that is already very good however I do

think that with my channel and the

quality of content that I'm making I

should be able to outrank definitely

these videos right here as this one is

not relevant this one is but much

smaller Channel and potentially even

these two results right here making free

AI video generator a very very good

keyword for me to make a video about

having found our keyword let's now take

a look at how to do the SEO for this

video to make sure it ranks so our video

keyword is free AI video generator so

that's the keyword that we need to

include in our title so that when people

search for this our video will show up

so first of all that needs to be in the

title so let's start off by pasting that

right here now our next step is to make

sure that this becomes a clickable title

because on my main Channel I also have

have subscribers that want to watch the

videos which is why for this video right

here I didn't just call it AI video

generators tutorial or something like

that I wanted to make it a very

clickable title so I went with I tried

five AI video generators to create

faceless YouTube videos so this right

there was the main keyword I was trying

to rank for which succeeded it's now

getting about 20 views per hour but I

also included another keyword create

faceless YouTube videos as well as I

made it an interesting title by saying I

tried knowing that this already worked

for me I'm going to do the exact same

thing here so I'm going to make this one

I tried free free is going to be all

caps lock cuz I want to put the emphasis

there AI video generators now what I can

do next is for example hit two dots and

I can say this is what happened or just

this happened for example and that's a

pretty interesting title however to be

honest I like to keep it searchable

content so I'm going to go with I tried

free AI video generators and then I want

to insert another keyword after that so

potentially I can just do the exact same

thing and then put to create faceless

YouTube videos I know for a fact that

that is indeed going to work out very

well so this could be the title that I

go with however for example I also know

that YouTube shorts is quite an engaging

topic and a lot of people search for

this so for example I can also search

for YouTube shorts and try and figure

out what people search for there to

include that into our keyword

for example faceless YouTube shorts and

there we go we now have a very engaging

clickable title with our keyword with is

free AI video generator as well as

another keyword create faceless YouTube

shorts that right there is going to

perform insanely well on my channel so

we're going to take this title we're

going to first of all copy it and put it

at the top of the description and then

now I want to include matching terms and

related keywords in our description

first of all say in this video

I will show you and then right there

that gives me the first opportunity to

put a related keyword for our main

keyword which is free AI video generator

so I'll go back to vid IQ I'll search

for this and then I'll go to related

keywords then as you can see right there

it's going to give us all of these for

example the best AI Video Creator or if

I go over here I'm probably going to see

best free AI video generator so that's

something I can include I will show you

the best AI

video generators that I need to make

sure I add best free AI video generators

in between there to create faceless

YouTube shorts now just real quick if we

go back to the YouTube shorts keyword

you'll see YouTube shorts monetization

is a very big keyword there so what I

can say is you might have

seen that YouTube

introduced YouTube shorts monetization

allowing you to make

money with YouTube

shorts so right there I just included

two keywords we've got YouTube shorts

monetization as well as make money with

YouTube shorts now do you still remember

the point of doing it like this first

point is to let YouTube know what our

video is about second point is to also

rank for when people search for these

keywords right here now potentially I

can make this description a bit longer

however as as of right now I already

have the main important keywords that I

want to rank for which is free AI video

generator we've got create faceless

YouTube shorts we've got YouTube shorts

monetization and make money with YouTube

shorts which to be honest is already a

pretty decent amount of keywords with

that being said as you now know the only

step left is the tags so remember what

we do is we take the main keyword that

we want to rank for which in this case

is free AI video generators we go to

Rapid tags.io we paste our keyword we

take the tags from here we paste them

and then there we go and that means

we're pretty much ready to roll now this

video cost me a lot of time to make in

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